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EU rejects Serbian claims of deception over Kosovo deal
Gazeta Tema
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July 31, 2025
The European Union has rejected accusations from Serbia’s former PM Ivica Dačić, who claimed Brussels "deceived" Serbia into signing the 2013 agreement with Kosovo. In a statement to N1 TV, the EU said both Serbia and Kosovo entered the agreement...
Helping Hands and Healing Paws in Kosovo
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 29, 2025
U.S. Army Veterinary Services from Charlie Company, 199 Brigade Support Battalion rarely get the opportunity to interact with the local animal population. When a request came in for help with the stray cat population control on Camp Film City,...
The Case Against a Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide
OpEdNews
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August 23, 2025
Have you read The Case for Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide? I dont mind promoting it to you, since I agree with most of it (and also consider most of it to do absolutely nothing to advance any case for military intervention to stop...
We took action in Kosovo. Why should Gaza be any different?
The Herald (Scotland)
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July 24, 2025
The UK is threatening more sanctions against [[Israel]] but in reality they have no effect at all. Why would [[Israel]] listen to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer or his Foreign Secretary David Lammy? They have no influence in what is an ongoing...
The Backdrop to Recent Ukraine-Russia Talks? Trump’s ‘Jihad on Truth’
Pass Blue
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August 22, 2025
Presidents Trump and Putin after a joint news conference during the 2025 Russia-United States Summit in Anchorage, Alaska, Aug. 15, 2025. The essayist, a former foreign correspondent, writes that “American democracy and a sane world order depend...
Asteroid economics: why we’re shopping our way through Armageddon
Psyche
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August 21, 2025
We must escape the psychological trap where grave warnings about existential threats trigger ever more destructive behaviour Why do our growing environmental and political crises, bearing existential risk for human beings, trigger irrational...
Winners of 2025 Just Transition Young Voices Awards revealed
Balkan Green Energy News
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August 20, 2025
Young people aged 18-30 across Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine had the opportunity to submit their original, fact-based articles that explore how their communities are...
Crashes, storms, joy and tragedy: Mercury Memories opens up newspapers from the past
Rutland & Stamford Mercury
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August 22, 2025
From nitric acid spillages on the A1 to masked raids and the arrival of Stamford Lidl, it was all happening this week in years gone by. We look back at news and photos from late August 2015, 2000, 1975, 1925, and 1825. Our Rutland & Stamford...
Will Serbia stick with Europe?
Unherd
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August 21, 2025
In Belgrade, the morning after the night before, the city is serene. The roads have been fastidiously cleared of the banners and debris. The violence exists now only on social media, and in the collective consciousness. All the while, the...
Dozens of airports in Southeastern Europe invest in solar power, energy efficiency
Balkan Green Energy News
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August 21, 2025
Surfaces around infrastructure such as railways and motorways are convenient for solar power as there are few alternatives for their use and the technology can directly provide them with electricity. Airports, too, have embraced the global trend...
Trump and the not-so-noble Nobel
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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“I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for this, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between India and Pakistan, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between Serbia and Kosovo, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for keeping...
Has Trump really ended ‘seven’ wars?
The Independent
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August 19, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About the Future: We Know Because They Said So
Good News Network
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August 19, 2025
Pete Alexopoulos, via Unsplash With civil wars in Myanmar and Sudan, climate change manifestations the world over, instability across the Middle East, and geopolitical tensions abounding in East Asia, Europe, and North America, one would imagine...
Effective Reforms Could Increase Economy by 9%
Albanian Daily News
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The efficiency of reform implementation will increase the economy of Albania and the Western Balkans in general by about 9% in the medium term, according to estimates from the International Monetary Fund, in a recent document on structural reform...
Ukrainian Army increases troop mobility with first French-made Bastion armored personnel carriers
Defense News Security News Army Recognition
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This transaction complements earlier agreements involving VABs transferred from the French Army, which Arquus committed to support and maintain through the establishment of a repair workshop in Ukraine. This also marks the latest phase of a...
Veton Nurkollari: It would be a shame to compromise
Kosovo 2.0
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August 20, 2025
Veton Nurkollari, or xhaxhi (uncle), as he is affectionately called by many, is resolute about the activist spirit of Dokufest. An international documentary and short film festival he co-founded 24 years ago in Prizren, at a time when the city had...
The uncertain fate of the Soros empire
The Gazette - Colorado
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Democratic megadonor George Soros just turned 95. But the nonagenarian’s decadeslong legacy as a progressive philanthropist rests in the arguably inexperienced hands of his ambitious, millennial son Alex, heir to the $25 billion Soros empire. As...
Experts advocate for robust data sharing in SA to crack down on economic crime
Daily Maverick
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August 20, 2025
This was the scary picture that emerged at a recent Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners conference. Experts from both the private and public sectors hammered home the message that the future of economic crime prevention in Africa hinges...
Alexander Isak, Newcastle and Liverpool: What happens next?
The New York Times
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August 20, 2025
The Alexander Isak saga took another twist on Tuesday, with the Newcastle United striker issuing an incendiary statement outlining his grievances at being denied a transfer by the club. Newcastle then responded in kind, insisting they had never...
Kamel Mennour On 25 Years of Building a Parisian Powerhouse
The New York Observer
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August 20, 2025
Kamel Mennour. Courtesy Mennour. Since entering the gallery business 25 years ago, Kamel Mennour has focused his efforts on his hometown and become one of the key players in reasserting Paris’s relevance in the contemporary art world at a time...